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The contributions in this volume examine how tacit knowledge reveals itself, how it becomes tangible and how it inscribes itself into cultural and social practices. Featuring interviews with Mark Johnson, Theodore Schatzki, and Loïc Wacquant.

Amanda Machin brings the body back into democratic politics, arguing that human bodies are not only the disciplined objects of politics, but the generative subjects of democracy.

What is our ultimate reality: the physical universe or the world of everyday-life experience? Only a philosophy of the body can answer this question.

Current findings from anthropology, genetics, prehistory, cognitive and neuroscience indicate that human nature is grounded in a co-evolution of tool use, symbolic communication, social interaction and cultural transmission. Digital information technology has recently entered as a new tool in this co-evolution, and will probably have the strongest impact on shaping the human mind in the near future. A common effort from the humanities, the sciences, art and technology is necessary to understand this ongoing co- evolutionary process.
Interactivity is a key for understanding the new relationships formed by humans with social robots as well as interactive environments and wearables underlying this process. Of special importance for understanding interactivity are human-computer and human-robot interaction, as well as media theory and New Media Art. »Paradoxes of Interactivity« brings together reflections on »interactivity« from different theoretical perspectives, the interplay of science and art, and recent technological developments for artistic applications, especially in the realm of sound.

From the ashes of postmodern deconstruction there are
arising networks in all areas of society. This book brings together hermeneutics, actor-network theory and new media studies to create a vision for the global network society.

A modern rereading of Wallerstein's thoughts that brings the famous sociologist and economic historian into the 21st century.

A demonstration of how recent critical theory in the wake of the ›turns‹ has been shaped by dualism, and how to develop conceptual alternatives to it.

What are images? How do they appear? And what do they do to us? On the concept of "pictorial appearing" and what difference it makes.

Laura Bieger discusses American novels from four centuries to show how the human need to belong is a driving force of literary production.

By focusing on the sublime aesthetics of narrative & autoethnography, this work explores storytelling as a democratization of political theorization.